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...enough to describe the silent beauty of this man's every step and gesture. The tilt of his head or the stoop of his shoulders, the raising of his hand or the arching of his brow, make a prose description something quite awkward if not faintly sacrilegious. Marcel Marceau is an accomplished actor, a striking artist, and a wondrous, wordless poet...
Collector Guggenheim's vast private museum embraces, as British Critic Sir Herbert Read once put it, "all the major movements which since about 1910 have transformed the very concept of art." Items: Marcel Duchamp's Lonely Boy on Train, from the same period as his famed Nude Descending a Staircase; examples of the 1913 Moscow Suprematist movement by Founder Malevitch and Follower Lissitzky; key works by Mondrian, Kandinsky, Braque, Picasso and Pollock. So famous is her collection that Venice's international Biennale once gave her a pavilion all to herself. Says Peggy: "It was wonderful...
...before a shot could be fired, the startled Red Wings scraped to a halt. All of a sudden there was nothing to shoot at. The squat goal was still there, but it was turned completely around, its open end facing the backboards. Alongside stood the Rangers' Rookie Goalie Marcel Faille. He was the picture of puzzled innocence, waiting for someone to do something-anything...
...zone (outer slums) are no match for scrappers who slug their way out of the free-for-alls of such dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...
...drama of everyday people, uses here only squalid scenery and degenerate characters for the dramatic value of the shock they may still contain. If the dialogue is as bad as the subtitles, it is bad indeed. The acting is barely competent; also quite stock are the devices of Director Marcel Blistene...